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iMonrey

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  1. Is anyone else totally Team Worldkiller at this point? I mean, if the combined efforts of Supergirl, J'onn, Mon El, Imra and Lena can't take these bozos on with the full power of the DEO behind them, why go on? Especially when you stop to consider how lame Pestilence and Purity actually are; the former can't even hurt you unless she's close enough to scratch you, presumably, and the latter just screams at you real loud. Haven't they heard of ear plugs? Criminy. And am I to assume the World Killers just have magic costumes they can conjure at will? Because Sam wasn't wearing anything but a hospital gown, then suddenly she was up in the air wearing full Reign regalia. WTF? It's not like she had it hidden underneath her hospital gown. Slightly smarter. Heh.
  2. Yeah, I caught that too. Looked like she was going into a Lutz. {/skating nerd} This whole season is pretty much a wash for me. I'm almost never interested in the athletes. Doing a season of just athletes makes it eminently skippable for me. But since it's only 4 weeks I'm just curious enough to see what the three skaters do, since they are literally the only three contestants I have ever heard of before in my life. And I fast-forwarded through this 2 hour spectacle and pretty much only watched them, so I should be able to get through this whole season in a little under 2 hours. I wasn't surprised how well Mirai and Adam did, but I was surprised at how well Tonya did. She doesn't look like she's in great shape, frankly, although I have seen her skating recently so there's more muscle mass on her than maybe you'd expect. That move where Sasha spun her around on the floor was astounding. I'll be curious to see if she gets votes considering how controversial she is, and likely will always be.
  3. I don't think she supports Trump so much as she supports - or rather, defends - Trump voters. She steadfastly believes that blue collar middle America put her on the map because those are the people who made her show Number 1 in the ratings back in the day (and again, today). I think she identifies with them to the point where she feels like she's the only one representing them. Which is fine - I'm all for anyone who wants to highlight the struggles of ordinary, hard working blue collar families. But, as Bill says, now it's time for her to show how Trump has failed those voters. We're 2 years in . . . things haven't gotten any better for them. Is the Conner family suddenly thriving because of the tax cuts? No. Did Trump bring a boatload of jobs back to Lanford? No. Fine, Roseanne, defend those people all you want but you're not doing them any favors at this point if you don't acknowledge any of this. Yes but the reality is that male political pundits vastly outnumber female political pundits. (And now he's probably going to have to knock Joy Reid out of his stable of regulars.) That goes double for male vs. female politicians. And on top of all that you have to find people who are willing to appear on the show in the first place. Bill's show isn't unique in that respect, you can turn on any Sunday roundtable show or any 24/7 cable news show and the male to female ratio of talking heads is going to be the same.
  4. Except that he brought this up by way of explaining how he had a "racy" story to tell. I suppose that, too, might only be racy to Holt, but the entire remark felt off.
  5. I agree with this, and I also feel like the show is far more interested in style than in substance. Last week's season premier was an hour and fifteen minutes long but that hour and fifteen minutes seemed to fly by. This week's episode was only an hour but it felt like an hour and a half. Why is that? I think it's partly because I'm sick to death of these endless flashback scenes between Bernard and Delores. I realize lots of people find them fascinating but they just seem so pretentious to me - not to mention repetitive. "Bring yourself back online Delores. Do you know where you are Delores. I am in a dream. A dream is a wish your heart makes Delores. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah." I mean - I understand we've being given information in all this exposition but it's couched in so much flowery crap it's driving me nuts. Get back to the damn story already!
  6. My favorite bit as well. I really enjoyed the character of Grace Humiston but I have to admit, I had to look her up, as well as Alice Paul, to see if they were real people because I've never heard of them before. Which is actually an interesting direction this show might have taken - go back and change history so we have no current knowledge of some of these people. Then it would make sense we never heard of them before because the Time Team keeps wiping them out. It would be far less egregious than, say, changing who killed Lincoln or where JFK was shot. Another thing I found rather striking about this episode was the completely appropriate lack of makeup on the women. I think Abigail Spencer was still wearing a bit of camera makeup but it was really toned down, and the actress playing Grace didn't look like she was wearing any. I appreciate that kind of attention to detail. Which is why it still bugs me that Wyatt isn't clean-shaven when he goes into the past.
  7. I agree that Tina seems very needy and I don't like her chances of developing a good relationship with her birth father. Every so often they get someone who seems broken beyond what this show is able to fix. The story with Katie and Lynn was sweet but not especially compelling. So far this season, all the stories have been about children looking for their parents. For some reason it seems more interesting to me when it's a parent that has given up a child and is searching for it rather than the other way around. I want to award bonus points to Lisa Joyner for pulling her car over to take a call on her cell phone. Nothing annoys me more than people who talk on their phone while driving.
  8. I don't know the last time I laughed as hard as I did when Holt did that high-pitched "Nothing???????????????" But I also got a kick out of the screeching noise Jake threatened to make until Reginald agreed to take them to the party boat. That said, I didn't really think it was in character for Holt to say that Kevin had gotten him really horny that morning. He hadn't even been drinking yet at that point. That just doesn't sound like something he'd say. As opposed to "I have a plan." Then nothing. Then when it's pointed out to him, "Oh my, I am quite intoxicated."
  9. Yes. A polite person wouldn't have mentioned it, but let's remember what show we're watching. Ronan Farrow's paternity has been speculated about ever since he became a somewhat public face (I mean . . . just look at him). Everyone has talked about it. People have asked him about it in interviews. He can't really get away from it. I'm sure he was more or less expecting Bill to say something about it, if he knows anything about Bill. I still wish Bill hadn't said anything because it was so obvious and expected, but I'm not surprised, nor do I believe Ronan was.
  10. Neither Ross Douthat nor Bill came off very well in that exchange. I can understand Bill wanting to stand up for his friend but Hugh Hefner was kind of a sleaze ball. I do agree that Playboy is not pornography though - whether it paved the way for actual pornography is another matter. Douthat was extremely disingenuous when they moved onto the topic of evangelicals supporting Trump. I also tend to agree that more people should be filing lawsuits against Trump for slander, and that the left got bullied into saying Trump supporters aren't racists. I absolutely LOVED the open letter to Roseanne. Look - I understand that Roseanne thinks she is the champion of blue collar middle America and wants to speak for them. But Bill is right - if she wants to do them a solid, next season she will play the role of a blue collar American who realizes they've been duped.
  11. The only people who see that painting are people who come into the apartment. Whereas the wedding dress is going to be seen by everyone and photographed. Honestly - Amy might not realize how horrible it looks until later when she sees the wedding photos and then it will be too late. There's a way to gently suggest the dress is "too much" without laying it on thick. If Amy puts her foot down, then you back down. But when the dress is clearly that hideous (and, let's be real here - clearly they designed this thing for maximum laughs), you try to talk her out of it. It's the kind thing to do.
  12. I don't know about anyone else, but I just barely remembered anything about the teenaged girl that Gabby was helping. That's how little I pay attention anymore to anything having to do with Gabby. Also, in determining who is better suited to driving the truck, I think maneuvering it backwards through cones would be a relatively small priority versus the ability to weave through traffic and get to the scene the quickest. Granted there's no practical way to test that but since both have driven, the rest of the squad probably have a good idea who does it best, and that's what should matter most. I'd like to know how it really works in Chicago, because in my city, drivers just drive. That's literally all they do. They don't get out of the truck and help fight fires, they just drive there and drive back, period. Also? They get paid more money than the fire fighters, which is why the firemen might fight over filling in for the driver if he's out that shift. They'd get his salary for that shift.
  13. Which leads me to suspect there is some producer participation in the picking and it isn't really 100% in the hands of the players. Because you're right, it seems like this is something that would play a major role in hurt feelings, drama, targeting, etc. The fact that it never comes up is highly suspicious. And that's probably because they all know, it wasn't really a choice they made but a choice that was made for them.
  14. Exactly, so the implication is that the plane is in such crappy condition a window can fall out just by bumping into it. Which conjures a rather frightening image of what could happen mid-air.
  15. Well, he's very very pretty. Which should come as no surprise because he's a male model, despite being called "realtor" by the show. Just Google him. (If they used the actual job titles on this show for the players, 75% of them would be "model" and "aspiring actor.") But no, he does not seem to have much of a personality. Which again, isn't that surprising. People that pretty rarely do. And I don't mean that as a judgment call. I just mean people who are really attractive have no incentive to develop personalities because people are just naturally drawn to them.
  16. I would hope that the dress was designed specifically for this show, and for laughs, because I shudder to think that anyone would actually design a wedding dress that looked like that. Now that I've seen that monstrosity posted upthread, I'm not so sure. I'm torn on the tiara addition too because Amy already wore that when she was maid of honor at Bernadette's wedding. I was pleasantly surprised to see the Comic Book Store still had plenty of customers - I figured Stuart would go right back to being a loser after one episode. I still question whether he has the capital to buy Sheldon's comic books for any significant amount of money though. There was a much bigger, better comic book store that was his rival a few seasons ago, I wonder whatever happened to that.
  17. It's too bad this show will almost certainly be cancelled because I actually thought this episode was rather good. I especially love the relationship dynamic between Michael and Matthew. I laughed when Michael was telling him lots of famous people never graduated from high school like Anne Frank and Joan of Arc, and Matthew replies "And they turned out just fine!" I also love that Michael followed him to find out why he was wearing a tie, then read the nun the riot act. Also love the little cameos with Mindy Kaling - telling all the senior citizens "You're so lucky your husbands are dead!"
  18. There's an older man standing behind her, one of the Cloud 9 extras, and he gives her the most hilarious look when she says that. I also loved the gag with the missing child. At first it was just Glenn and Dina interrupting Garrett when he's trying to announce that a child is missing, but then the kid in the suspenders turns up right in the middle of the big scene with Amy, Jonah, Adam and Alex saying "I can't find my mommy" and Amy turns around and yells "grown-ups are talking!" I laughed so loud at that my neighbors must have heard me. That's all I ask. Just give me one or two really good laugh out loud moments, and I'm happy. This show delivers that, almost always. That's why I'm not really invested, one way or another in what happens with Amy and Jonah. I am, however, glad he broke things off with Kelly. I wonder if she'll be written off now. She's not really quirky enough to stand on her own, it seems like she only exists to be that monkey wrench in the whole Amy/Jonah thing.
  19. That footage of the Fox and Friends hosts fidgeting and frozen in horror during Trump's rant was hilarious. They were trying to shut him up! Oh, the hypocrisy, it burns. See, even they know this guy is a lunatic. He's just a convenient idiot to push their network's agenda. But I'm surprised Sam didn't cover the main story about that whole thing, which is that Trump admitted Cohen represented him in the Stormy Daniels deal - something he denied just 2 weeks ago. I think a lot of it is editing. Sam will say something outrageous and then they just cut to a shot of her guest sitting there showing no reaction. It's a pretty common tactic dating back to similar The Daily Show interviews.
  20. It was the other story where the birth father was deceased - the Cuban/Ecuadorean guy. The yearbook guy is still alive, so far as we know. They never said one way or another.
  21. There's a Chelsea? And a Jenna? Did anyone else know this? The failing of this season is that "Naviti strong" turned out to be a major thing, despite the fact that the tribes were mixed up after the first two weeks. With 20 people that's not nearly enough time for the viewers to get a grasp on who is Malolo and who is Naviti. They probably did not expect any such alliance to stay that strong after such a short time. That being the case, what the show needed to do is caption all the players as "former Naviti" and "former Malolo" so we know who's where. I finally caved, went to the CBS site, and looked up who the hell the remaining Malolo are (FYI: Donathan, Laurel, Michael, and someone named Jenna.) Further confusing matters is the well-covered alliance of Donathan, Laurel, Dom and Wendell. That's two Malolo and two Naviti, so it makes it even harder to grasp the idea of Naviti having a strong 7-person advantage. Seemingly, Dom and Wendell are in the best position. They have the numbers in their favor as well as a side deal with two Malolo tribe members. Idols aside, Donathan and Laurel don't profit from this alliance nearly as much. Dom and Wendell can ditch them any time, and even if they go to the final four with them they fare poorly with a jury that perceives them as goats. They probably wouldn't have fared much better going along with Desi's plan, though, so I'm not sure what their best move is at this point.
  22. It doesn't especially bother me they don't specify how Mark died, perhaps out of respect to Glenn Quinn. But I am curious about the Lunchbox, because it was the first significant economic step up the Conners ever really had. Jackie and Roseanne ended up selling their shares to Leon and Nancy in the dreadful final "lottery" season, but I wonder if they will instead pretend it never existed. Roseanne Barr seems determined to have the Conners more or less revert to their earliest season selves, never getting by on anything better than dry walling and minimum wage jobs. I think I read that Sandra Bernhard is supposed to make a guest appearance (not a spoiler - I could be mistaken about that). Maybe then they'll address the Lunchbox.
  23. And his manifesto seems to be: wait 100 years, then build a time machine, then come back in time and get me and take me to your time, then we will change a history I have no knowledge of. I mean . . . Rittenhouse didn't even have the time machine until this season. Last season, it was Flynn who stole the time machine to bring down Rittenhouse. Now, all of a sudden, it was the Rittenhouse plan all along to steal the time machine for their own use? Then . . . why didn't Flynn destroy the time machine when he had it? They even showed a "previously" before this episode - the scene from last season's finale, when Flynn hands the diary back to Lucy. So, as far as we know, she has it. So why no mention of it? I think the diary has become an inconvenient plot point.
  24. "That's a sweet dreams guarantee." Nightmare, more like. I realize they're running short on food but you could just serve cooked rice, and cooked oatmeal. There's no reason to mash them together, presumably uncooked. How dumb are these people? (Yes, I realize that may be rhetorical.) And Gail and Melissa blowing off the supply run further demonstrates that all of these people, to a degree, are awful. Tandy and Carol are looking better and better. They're morons, to be sure, but they try to help in their own stupid way. All Melissa and Gail to is roll their eyes, criticize and complain. Recently even Todd has been looking bad. That leaves Erica as the least objectionable.
  25. It kind of worked on Rosa. I've seen far uglier bridesmaid dresses.
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